Wyoming Announces 2013 Football Schedule

Laramie, Wyo. (April 11, 2013) -- The Mountain West Conference
announced the 2013 conference football schedule on Thursday. The
Wyoming Cowboys will open conference play on the road at Air Force on
Saturday, Sept. 21. Wyoming’s 2013 Mountain West home
opener will be Saturday Oct. 12 versus New Mexico. The following week,
on Saturday, Oct. 19, Wyoming will host Colorado State. The Cowboys
will play four of their six home games between Sept. 7 and Oct. 19. The
only home games that fall after Oct. 19 are
a Nov. 9 meeting with Fresno State and a Nov. 23 contest that will see
the renewal of an old rivalry with Hawai’i that was last played in
1997.

All of Wyoming’s 2013 games are scheduled for Saturdays. Game times
and television coverage will be announced at a future date.

“It is great to see the schedule and how it lines up as we head into
the first year of divisional play in the Mountain West,” said Wyoming
head coach Dave
Christensen. “The addition of a conference championship game at the
end of the season is something I believe will be exciting for all the
teams in the conference to build toward throughout the season.

“I think our schedule is a good one for our team and our fans. We open
conference play early in the season at Air Force (on Sept. 21), which
will give our
fans an opportunity to travel down to the Academy for an early fall
game. We have our first bye week following our final non-conference
game at Texas State, and then come back the next two weeks to host two
of our long-time rivals in October in New Mexico
and Colorado State. We’ll get another bye before we enter the final
third of our schedule. I like the schedule, and I know I speak for our
team when I say we can’t wait to kick the season off.”

In 2013, the Wyoming Cowboys will, for the second consecutive year,
host archrival Colorado State (on Oct. 19) in War Memorial Stadium for
the annual “Border
War”. Wyoming’s other conference home games in 2013 will include: New
Mexico (Oct. 12), Fresno State (Nov. 9) and Hawai’i (Nov. 23) . The
Cowboys Mountain West road trips this coming season will take them to:
Air Force (Sept. 21), San Jose State (Oct. 26),
Boise State (Nov. 16) and Utah State (Nov. 30).

Including Wyoming’s 2013 season opener on Aug. 31 in Lincoln, Neb.,
versus the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Cowboys will face six teams that
played in bowl games
at the conclusion of the 2012 season. UW’s other five opponents who
appeared in bowl games are all conference foes -- Air Force, Boise
State, Fresno State, San Jose State and Utah State.

“With the teams returning in our league from last season, and the
addition of two bowl teams in San Jose State and Utah State, the
Mountain West will be an
outstanding conference,” added Christensen. “Every team in our league
will present a great challenge, but our team is looking forward to that
challenge. We start the season on the road at Nebraska, and five of our
eight conference games will be against teams
who played in bowl games last season. Every week should feature some
great games.”

Earlier this year, the Mountain West’s directors of athletics formed
two football divisions based upon common geographic regions and
traditional rivalries,
while also creating the first Mountain West Football Championship Game.
Beginning in the fall of 2013, Mountain West football membership will
include: Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, New Mexico, Utah State
and Wyoming in the Mountain Division and Fresno
State, Hawai‘i, Nevada, San Diego State, San Jose State and UNLV in the
West Division.

The inaugural Mountain West Football Championship Game will be played
December 7, 2013, at the home stadium of the divisional champion with
the highest BCS
ranking.

Each of the 12 Mountain West football teams conference schedules
feature eight conference games, with five of those games coming against
the teams in each
school’s division and the other three games being played against teams
from the Mountain West’s other division.

As a member of the “Mountain Division”, Wyoming will play Air Force,
Boise State, Colorado State, New Mexico and Utah State every season, and
will play three
games versus teams from the “West Division”. Wyoming’s three “West
Division” foes for the 2013 and 2014 seasons will be Fresno State,
Hawai’i and San Jose State.

Each institution will play four home and four road conference games
each season, and will play every Mountain West opponent home and away
during each four-year
cycle.

Intra-divisional opponents will alternate sites annually (three
home/two away or two home/three away). The three cross-divisional
opponents will be the same
in each two-year period, with the site alternating from Year 1 to Year
2. The three cross-divisional opponents who are missed initially will
appear on the schedule in the second two years of the cycle, again
alternating sites from Year 3 to Year 4. The entire
four-year sequence repeats beginning in 2017 and will continue
thereafter.

2013 Wyoming Football Schedule

Sat., Aug. 31 at Nebraska

Sat., Sept. 7 IDAHO

Sat., Sept. 14 NORTHERN COLORADO

Sat., Sept. 21 at Air Force*

Sat., Sept. 28 at Texas State

Sat., Oct. 5 OPEN

Sat., Oct. 12 NEW MEXICO*

Sat., Oct. 19 COLORADO STATE*

Sat., Oct. 26 at San Jose State*

Sat., Nov. 2 OPEN

Sat., Nov. 9 FRESNO STATE*

Sat., Nov. 16 at Boise State*

Sat., Nov. 23 HAWAI’I*

Sat., Nov. 30 at Utah State*

Sat., Dec. 7 Inaugural Mountain West Championship Game

*Indicates Mountain West Conference games

+The inaugural Mountain West Football Championship Game will be played at the home stadium of the